According to Latana Chai, who lives in the fourplex with her two daughters, along with her cousin and her aunt, who reside in two other units, Sasha woke her in the middle of the night by barking and banging on the back door, which was unusual behavior for her.

"I open [the door] and she runs in and starts barking at me like crazy, and I was like, 'Okay, this is weird. This is not like her,'" Chai told Kare 11.

At that point, Chai realized that her cousin's home, the unit next door, had caught on fire. Thankfully, her cousin wasn't home, but Chai knew she needed to get her family out as quickly as possible.

"I ran into the room and I see Sasha," Chai said, "she has my baby like by the diaper, just dragging her off the bed trying to get her to safety."

Sasha has a very special bond with the seven-month-old baby, Masailah. The two are only a month apart in age, and Sasha is fiercely protective of Masailah. The two even take baths together, according to Chai.

pitbulls don't have the best reputation as a breed— they often get maligned as vicious or unsafe. But hopefully Sasha's heroism can help end the stigma.

"[Sasha] saved everybody. Because if it wasn't for her, I don't think that any of us in this complex would have known anything," concluded Chai.

One thing is for certain — Sasha certainly earned her fair share of belly rubs and steaks this month.